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Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest

Gelesen von Peter Dann

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This unusual narrative by eccentric self-taught English linguist, traveller and one-time bible salesman George Borrow combines elements of autobiography, fantasy and anti-Catholic polemic. We follow Borrow around the countryside of England, Scotland and Ireland — and, for a period, through the streets of London — as he grows from a young boy to a young man in the first decades of the nineteenth century, attracted to studying various languages, hoping but failing to make his mark as a writer and translator, and then later adopting the life of an itinerant tinker, all the while struggling with intermittent bouts of existential despair and terror. The two figures Borrow denotes as "scholar" and "priest" in his title figure only slightly in the tale, while even Mr Petulengro, a gypsy Borrow befriends, appears only intermittently. According to Borrow, the term "Lavengro" signifies "word master" in the language of the gypsies. Noted Australian author (and, incidentally, self-taught student of Hungarian) Gerald Murnane has described Borrow as his favourite prose stylist. (Summary by Peter Dann) (21 hr 48 min)

Chapters

Preface

8:52

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Chapter 1

19:11

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Chapter 2

14:42

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Chapter 3

21:46

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Chapter 4

16:16

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Chapter 5

20:57

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Chapter 6

17:03

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Chapter 7

17:53

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Chapter 8

10:45

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Chapter 9

14:16

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Chapter 10

9:10

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Chapter 11

11:43

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Chapter 12

17:28

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Chapter 13

14:14

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Chapter 14

19:48

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Chapter 15

13:39

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Chapter 16

11:49

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Chapter 17

15:19

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Chapter 18

9:07

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Chapter 19

16:43

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Chapter 20

8:30

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Chapter 21

12:52

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Chapter 22

16:42

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Chapter 23

18:42

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Chapter 24

14:25

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Chapter 25

17:09

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Chapter 26

16:58

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Chapter 27

16:44

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Chapter 28

5:04

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Chapter 29

8:39

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Chapter 30

14:14

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Chapter 31

13:53

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Chapter 32

12:06

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Chapter 33

10:29

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Chapter 34

5:15

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Chapter 35

10:33

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Chapter 36

13:15

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Chapter 37

9:32

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Chapter 38

8:28

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Chapter 39

13:49

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Chapter 40

8:18

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Chapter 41

8:44

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Chapter 42

12:04

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Chapter 43

4:12

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Chapter 44

12:23

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Chapter 45

10:37

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Chapter 46

8:32

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Chapter 47

12:12

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Chapter 48

8:44

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Chapter 49

7:32

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Chapter 50

8:01

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Chapter 51

10:15

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Chapter 52

10:11

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Chapter 53

15:31

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Chapter 54

8:37

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Chapter 55

7:38

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Chapter 56

5:52

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Chapter 57

7:39

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Chapter 58

6:55

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Chapter 59

7:17

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Chapter 60

8:32

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Chapter 61

3:12

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Chapter 62

10:52

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Chapter 63

10:55

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Chapter 64

21:57

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Chapter 65

9:50

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Chapter 66

13:30

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Chapter 67

19:11

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Chapter 68

24:28

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Chapter 69

16:12

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Chapter 70

14:38

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Chapter 71

24:20

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Chapter 72

11:47

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Chapter 73

17:07

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Chapter 74

9:48

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Chapter 75

14:58

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Chapter 76

22:53

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Chapter 77

8:39

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Chapter 78

5:48

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Chapter 79

14:22

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Chapter 80

4:23

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Chapter 81

19:27

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Chapter 82

6:28

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Chapter 83

9:46

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Chapter 84

13:40

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Chapter 85

24:50

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Chapter 86

9:35

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Chapter 87

3:52

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Chapter 88

19:09

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Chapter 89

11:06

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Chapter 90

15:01

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Chapter 91

4:24

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Chapter 92

12:13

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Chapter 93

5:30

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Chapter 94

29:11

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Chapter 95

16:12

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Chapter 96

11:48

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Chapter 97

17:26

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Chapter 98

28:37

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Chapter 99

24:55

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Chapter 100

8:42

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